There are a lot of contests for youths that are constituted by our President.Among them,the competition called "Young Reader" has become a sample of my vibrant memories.In fact,in 2022 for the first time I got to participate in the republican stage of this contest. I was left in 4th in the regional stage because of the lack of my experience.After this catastrophic lose of hope for winning,my craving for the reward has died.You may ask,who was the impetus for my constancy of attempts,then I would answer "that's my mom and my dad,they were the motivation themselves" I used to be just televiewer of this contest only, while the winners were gathered in front of the main stage I used to hear my mums words "when I will be able to see my daughter in the group of these intelligent young people?Will I see my daughter holding the main reward,waving the key of an automobile?"As I am a pupil of the russian school,where all the subjects are taught in Russian,I was strictly against to my participation in this contest as if  the sky was going to fall down to the ground. But my mother's request taught me not to lose myself, our national values, literature,not to forget my mother tongue. The terms of the competition were much more difficult, I hesitated too much when i was speaking in public for preparation of the contest. It was too challenging me. How many sleepless nights,cartoonless and phoneless days have I experienced...When I prioritized my perfect participation I dreamed a lot about: discussing difficult topics with the most quick-witted readers from the different parts of my country, creating a group on a Telegram Messenger, and building a brief conversation with them.The most interesting part was the  poetry challenge. I was in 4th in terms of the participants. Until this round I skimmed the whole book that was being presented to first participants.I felt that I should read this book as much as I can in order to answer to the questions of judges,but anyway the feeling of low memory-esteem left no way for me.I clearly remember that the participant  called Shahriyor asked me to lend the book. I felt the powerful fire inside. Soon realized that that's called jealousy.Somehow more powerful river ran and engulfed the flame, and gave back my sense of humanity to myself. Then I gave the book to Shahriyor. I began to turn the book "Little star" of Abdulla Oripov over and over until i was called to the main stage ...Just a minute before leaving the waiting room suddenly I came across the short poem.It was about a pen. I read it just once. On the stage I was required to choose any random number on the screen with random poems behind. This is unbelievable but... overriskingly,I chose the number 13 against the beliefs that it's an unlucky number.The 4 lines of the poem behind the number were the ones that I read 5 minutes ago!!!I was amazed!!!For the whole preparation year for this contest I read this poem only once,and plus once,there,in waiting room.I was confident in describing this poem to judges,as ideas were fresh in my mind.Fortunately,I got the highest score in this part of the challenges.While leaving the stage I was completely convinced that Allah is seeing all my efforts and will not leave them without reward.But at first,I speculate,I was examined in terms of humanity.When I agreed to lend that book,i passed the exam. I could control my jealousy and put the tolerance and humanity as my priorities.From that moment,I started to take actions accepting them as if they are exams that Allah is giving.What if I had not lent the book?!I would not achieve the highest score and stage overall.Thank God,I am receiving the fruits of my hard efforts.Shortly,that competition taught me a life lesson.

During my high school career, I have been fortunate to achieve many of the goals I have set for myself. These goals have included scoring high on standardized tests and other academic achievements, and even achieving high positions in school clubs and functions. However, if someone asked me what I felt my greatest achievement was, I would have to tell them that it was when I almost single handedly saved my school newspaper. During my junior year of high school, I had decided that I should become more involved in school functions and activities in my high school and, with my love of journalism, joining the newspaper club seemed like a great way to do that. Almost immediately, I was worried by how informal the club was and how little the students paid attention during the first meeting, but I paid it no mind and began writing the two articles I was assigned, an interview of my English teacher and a sports article covering the most recent football game. I was very excited and proud of my work and gave it to the club's sponsor before she said something that transformed my previous happiness into bitter disappointment. I was the only person in the entire club to write an article and the newspaper would be forced to miss its deadline because of it. After my disappointment faded, it was replaced with fury and determination. I was not going to allow the club that I felt had so much potential waste it, even if I had to create an entire school newspaper by myself. I began by writing several additional articles about current events in the school and borrowing the calendar from the principal to fill up enough newspaper pages to release it before October 30. However, I was quickly faced with my first problem; while designing the format of the school newspaper, I discovered that the articles were neither long nor numerous enough to fill the paper and that I would have to find additional items to insert. I hurriedly searched for a solution and found a small one when I read over the article where I interviewed the coach of the new soccer team. I would insert the entire year's soccer schedule which would be interesting and informative to the readers and, most importantly, would take up space in the newspaper. Unfortunately, this was a temporary solution and there was still a lot of space to fill if I wanted the newspaper to look professional. After hours of brainstorming, I offhandedly thought how much easier it would have been if more people had written articles and how I could get them to do that. Then an idea appeared in my mind, what if English teachers offered extra credit to students who wrote articles in the paper? I asked the English teachers in my school if they agreed with this idea and, after they agreed, I wrote another article detailing how students could receive extra credit in the future. After writing this article I had another idea, what if I made more things that could fill up space in the future and write an article about them now explaining the idea? After thinking that, it was easy to write about ideas such as a monthly art contest where the winner would have their artwork displayed in the paper or the advice column where students turned in questions that I would later answer in the paper. Some of these ideas later became a staple of the paper, while some failed almost immediately afterwards, but they all achieved their purpose and I was able to finish editing the first edition of the school newspaper thanks to them. After fine tuning the newspaper, it was released on October 27 to the approval of both students and teachers. Many commented on how it was the best newspaper my school had seen in years, but I was not content with stopping there. I was officially made the chief editor soon after the first edition of the school newspaper was released, and I began to work towards my vision for the end of the year, changing the paper from a bimonthly four-pager to a monthly eight-pager, both things that previous chief editors had attempted to achieve in the past but were unable to accomplish. No month was as difficult as the first, but I never forgot how difficult it was to release a paper by myself and I began to get as many students that were already in the club as I could to get involved. Many left the club, not having expected to have to work when they first joined, but the few that stayed behind proved to be invaluable. There were hardships, and many setbacks, but after more new ideas, such as a puzzle page and advertisements, thrown in with lots of hard work, we were able to achieve our goals only two months after our first newspaper edition, to everyone's shock. I hope that even when I graduate high school, the club will continue to prosper and, if it does not, I know that the lesson that nothing is impossible with enough hard work will live on with me and the other members forever.

Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires that the history of civilization has seen. It was said that ‘sun never sets on Rome' as it was such a large empire with its wings spread out wide, it was built over years of hard work and labors. The city of Rome was its capital. Rome is renowned for its architectural beauty. It has many beautiful buildings, parks, gardens, fountains, etc. Even to this day, the name of Rome has its marvelous glory. So when we say that Rome was not built in a day means success does not come in a day. It's a hard work of days, months and years that lead to success. We should not judge each day by the harvest that we reap, but by the seeds that we have planted. As we sow, so we reap. So we have to burn the midnight oil to achieve success. In this endeavor, we have to be as smart as a snake and innocent as a dove. The world's best music composed by Beethoven was with years of hard work and rigorous practice without giving up. Life is not about a day, its build on a continuous progression and has to be maintained until the day we live in this world. To achieve something there is a need for continuous training and knowledge gathering process. Even if we are on the right track we need to keep running or we will end up in failure. The men and women who have tasted the fruit of success have also known the pain and sacrifice behind their success. The world's richest man Bill Gates said “if you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake” as the world gives a lot of opportunities to all. Every human being has 24 hours every day and it's up to him to use or misuse the time. Hard work with smart work is the formula for success, and there is no shortcut to success. One day two woodcutters went to chop wood in a forest. One man cut twenty trees in a day and the other man cut only five trees but the man who cut only five trees never took rest at all he was working all whole day in the hot sun but the other man took rest after cutting each tree and also managed to cut twenty trees, so the woodcutter asked the man who cut more trees “How did you manage to cut more trees than me when even you were not working continuously with me? “ The man replied: Yes, you are right I took rest after cutting each tree, but the difference was when I took rest I was not sitting idle instead was sharpening my axe which enabled me to cut more trees with the sharper axe. The moral of this is we have to work hard but also combine it with smart work or we would be of low output to the society. Hard work and smart work is two sides of the same coin. Little drops of water make a mighty ocean. This saying holds good at all times, our body, mind, and soul have to work together to achieve success. Other factors which come in the path of success are the society in which we live, our family, geographical situations, mental health and social conditions. Sometimes these factors may respond positively and sometimes negatively also. But it's a matter of how we respond to the crises that make us move on if we want to keep cribbing we can or we can say “where there is a will there is a way” Behind every success, there is a history of hard work and any man who has scaled great heights will have a story of hard work to share for the fruits of success he achieved. Unless the field is well tilled, plowed, sowed, watered, and taken care the yield will not be the finest. “History is created by people with courage and wisdom. Courage is individual but wisdom comes with experience” says Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam in his book Turning Point - A Journey through Challenges. A family is not created in a single day of marriage; Organisations are not organized in a day. It may be an effort of a lifetime that we achieve success. So we have to plan well, as success is not a short-term goal. It is a long-term goal and a lifetime goal, we need to have determination for it. Gold has to undergo a tough process in the furnace to be refined and made useful. So it's a course of battle before we attain success, it's not an overnight achievement. All men who achieved success was not born with a golden spoon in their mouth but their endurance made impossible possible, by that ordinary life was transformed into extraordinary. One of the best examples is of a boy who studied under the street light who then became the president of the United States of America. The boy is none other than Abraham Lincoln. Electricity was not commonly used across the states and was a basic necessity used by rich classes only. In daylight, they had to work for their livelihood, but the night when all slept this boy was awake gathering knowledge and he got the result of his hard work. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet. So from the saying “Rome was not built in a day” means that. There is no shortcut to success only hard work clubbed with smart work will lead us to magnificent moments in our lives.